Proceedings: Selected Papers [of The] Annual Meeting, Volume 22National Conference on Social Welfare, 1895 - Charities |
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... criminals and paupers in institutions often deserve the same indictment of being done wrong ? How large and vicious a class we find vibrating between jails , houses of correction , almshouses , and hospitals . All that many officers ...
... criminals and paupers in institutions often deserve the same indictment of being done wrong ? How large and vicious a class we find vibrating between jails , houses of correction , almshouses , and hospitals . All that many officers ...
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... criminals , often the progeny of criminal or diseased or feeble - minded parents . Leaders in charity are alive to these evils , and cry out against them . But not yet can they gain public support for needed reforms . The college ...
... criminals , often the progeny of criminal or diseased or feeble - minded parents . Leaders in charity are alive to these evils , and cry out against them . But not yet can they gain public support for needed reforms . The college ...
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... criminal pauper life , intense interest in the stu- pendous problem of unemployment aggravated by the commingling of genuine searchers for work with idle loafers at cheap shelters , trained tramps and feeble - minded offspring of ...
... criminal pauper life , intense interest in the stu- pendous problem of unemployment aggravated by the commingling of genuine searchers for work with idle loafers at cheap shelters , trained tramps and feeble - minded offspring of ...
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... criminal , as the only me- dium in which these boards can act so as rightly to discharge their peculiar function of influencing legislation . The aim of the State Boards and of the Conference , in this regard , is identical . More with ...
... criminal , as the only me- dium in which these boards can act so as rightly to discharge their peculiar function of influencing legislation . The aim of the State Boards and of the Conference , in this regard , is identical . More with ...
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... swiftly , but unfortu- nately falls hardest upon the dependent , insane , and criminal classes , for which the institutions exist . Since the adoption of the centralized system in Wisconsin , STATE BOARDS OF PUBLIC CHARITIES.
... swiftly , but unfortu- nately falls hardest upon the dependent , insane , and criminal classes , for which the institutions exist . Since the adoption of the centralized system in Wisconsin , STATE BOARDS OF PUBLIC CHARITIES.
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Page 62 - Spite of this flesh to-day I strove, made head, gained ground upon the whole!" As the bird wings and sings, Let us cry, " All good things Are ours, nor soul helps flesh more, now, than flesh helps soul!
Page 367 - ... whose duty it shall be to see that the provisions of this act are carried into effect.
Page 367 - State, or shall be liable to become such charge, it shall be the duty of the overseers of the poor of the town...
Page 375 - The Legislature shall provide for a state board of charities, which shall visit and inspect all institutions, whether state, county, municipal, incorporated or not incorporated, which are of a charitable, eleemosynary, correctional or reformatory character...
Page 375 - Prisons, which shall visit and inspect all institutions* used for the detention of sane adults charged with or convicted of crime, or detained as witnesses or debtors.
Page 241 - Maker, of its relation to society, to grow up in an atmosphere of profaneness and intemperance, and in the practice of falsehood and fraud, let not the community complain of his crime. It has quietly looked on and seen him, year after year, arming himself against its order and peace ; and who is most to blame, when at last he deals the guilty blow ? A moral care over the tempted and ignorant portion of the state is a primary duty of society.
Page 286 - In less than three years she had reduced one of the most disorderly hospital populations in the world to something like Christian discipline, such as the police themselves wondered at.
Page 241 - It ought not to breed monsters in its bosom. If it will not use its prosperity to save the ignorant and poor from the blackest vice, then it must suffer, and deserves to suffer, from crime.
Page 18 - Whence hath this man this wisdom, and these mighty works? Is not this the carpenter's son? is not his mother called Mary? and his brethren, James, and Joses, and Simon, and Judas? And his sisters, are they not all with us? Whence then hath this man all these things?
Page 2 - ... hire and other expenses, the amount and time of payment of which shall be fixed by the Executive Committee from time to time. The Treasurer shall receive and disburse all moneys of the Conference, all disbursements to be made only upon order of the General Secretary, approved by the President or by some member of the Executive Committee, to be named by the President. The Official Reporter and Editor shall report and edit the Proceedings of the Conference.